"Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture," the first major retrospective of the renowned anthropologist's work based on the Library's Mead collection, opens in the Northwest Pavilion of the Jefferson Building on November 30 and remains on view through May 2002. In addition the permanent exhibitions in the Bob Hope Gallery of Entertainment and the George and Ira Gershwin Room, both located on the ground floor of the Jefferson Building, will bring a smile to the lips and a song to the heart of every visitor.he Library of Congress commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the renowned -- and ofttimes controversial -- anthropologist Margaret Mead with an exhibition of some 150 items drawn from the large collection of letters, diaries, field notes, drawings, photographs, sound recordings and film that she gave to the Library before her death in 1978.
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